Thank You letter to Eventbrite!

Dear Eventbrite and staff,

              Hello! This is Angela Moy from Oakland Technical High School. We came to visit the Eventbrite Company on Friday November 9, 2012. I just wanted to personally thank you all for letting us come in and visit your company. The staff took some time off to talk to us about their jobs and I really appreciate it. I got to learn some personally knowledge about how the people at Eventbrite feel about working there and what they do. I also want to thank the staff for talking to us during their lunch break about their jobs or just to interact with us. The warm atmosphere really made me feel at home and the free leftover sushi was just amazing. If there was another chance to go back and visit Eventbrite, I will definitely take that offer and come back again.

Sincerely, Angela Moy

Digital Nations

          In this movie Digital Nations, it talks about computers and how it’s affecting the generation and lives today. Parents have been speculating that their kids and more people have become immersed in the digital world as a way of life. There are some people who just can’t imagine their lived without their computers or phones, when only about 10-20 years ago all this technology was mostly for business and the wealthy people. Douglas Rushkoff who once thought that the internet and change would be good for the future generation has doubts about it now. Studies have shown from NASA that people that think they are quick at multitasking are actually slower in everything then the average person.

           In University of Massachusetts,  In South Korea, computer and gaming has become a huge part of the younger generation and continues its popularity. Kids that are in second grade are already taught how to use a computer and understand the functions of it. It has become an increasing problem in Korea, because there has been kids that have died from playing tournaments without food and drinks. This problem has also caused a decrease in the learning ability of students not just in South Korea, but around the world. It distracts the students from solely focusing on their studies and cause them to do bad at school.

The Candy Bar Activity

To do this activity, we used a paper in replace of a candy bar. The objective of the task was to be able to break the candy into 12 equal pieces. In our group, which consists of Ruby and Alina, we decided that 4 breaks were enough to split the piece of candy bar into 12 equal pieces. We decided that each break just meant when we actually broke the candy, not by how many paper there was. We think that it wouldn't count if we were splitting them up in a pile all at once. That would take too much time and so we broke it half first and then broke it into 6 pieces. On out last break we broke it in half one more time with the papers piled together and made 12 equal pieces.